Combined post and tension device for wire fences.



5 Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

lIVl/E/VTOR ATTORNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS CO, PHOTO LITHO WASHINGTON. D.C-

CHARLES ID. BENNETT, F SCIPIO, INDIANA.

COMBINED POST AND TENSION DEVICE FOR WIRE FENCES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, jl ll5.

Application filed June 12, 1913. Serial No. 773,227.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLEs D. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Scipio, in the county of Jennings and State ofIndiana, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Postsand Tension Devices for Wire Fences, of

- which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wire fences and has for its object to provide acombined corner post and tension device adapted for either portable orstationary fences.

A further object of the invention is to provide a post and tensiondevice which is very simple, cheap and efficient.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear,the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, ashereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure l is a side elevation of this improvement partly broken away.Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 isa detail longitudinal section on line 33 of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale;and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bolt.

Referring to the drawing A is a corner post for a wire fence, eitherportable or stationary. The post is formed of members a, a atrightangles to each other, the member a adjacent to its junction withthe member a being provided with a plurality of apertures a B is a faceplate arranged opposite the member a of the post and provided with aplurality of apertures registering with the apertures a of the saidmember. The face plate B is spaced from the member a of the post byblock 6 and the said plate is secured to the member of the post by boltsZ2 Passing through the several registering apertures of the face plateand member a of the post are bolts C. Each bolt has a polygonal head 0for the application of a wrench thereto, and is provided between theface plate and member a of the post, with an aperture 0 by means ofwhich a longitudinal wire at of the wire fabric 1) is secured.

The end of the bolt C projecting through the member a of the post isprovided with a plurality of apertures 0 to receive the headed lockingpin E, which after being passed through the aperture of the bolt restsagainst the member a of the post and prevents the bolt C from turning.

In use, a bolt C having been passed through the registering apertures ofthe face plate B and the member a of the post and a Wire (1 attachedthereto, a wrench is applied to the head of the bolt C and said boltturned until the wire is put under the desired tension, when a lockingpin is inserted in one of the openings 0 of the bolt and by its contactwith the member a of the post, the said bolt is prevented from turningand the wire held under tension. The above op eration is repeated forall the other wires of the fence.

From the above it will be seen that by my invention the wires of a fencecan be quickly secured in position and any desired tension given tothem.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a wire fence, a post having two members at rightangles to each other, one of the members adjacent to its junction withthe other member, having a plurality of vertically arranged apertures, aface plate secured to and spaced a short distance from the aperturedmember of the post, said face plate having a plurality of verticallyarranged apertures registering with the apertures of the said postmember, a plurality of bolts having polygonal heads and passing throughthe registering apertures of the face plate and post member, each bolthaving means, intermediate of its ends between the face plate andapertured post member, for the attachment of a wire thereto, each boltalso having adjacent its other end a plurality of apertures, and pins inthe apertures of the bolts and provided with polygonal heads engagingthe imperforate member of the post.

CHARLES D. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

LAFAYETTE WILKERSON, ERNEST E. AWRICK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

